KALAMAZOO COLLEGE 1200 Academy Street • Kalamazoo, Michigan 49006 • USA (269) 337-7000 •
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KALAMAZOO COLLEGE 1200 Academy Street • Kalamazoo, Michigan 49006 • USA (269) 337-7000 • www.kzoo.edu FOR ADMISSION INFORMATION: TOLL FREE (800) 253-3602 LOCAL (269) 337-7166 FAX (269) 337-7390 E-MAIL [email protected] The Academic Catalog is available on the World Wide Web at www.kzoo.edu/regist/ © 2010 KalamaZoo ColleGE. All riGHts reserVED. The Academic Catalog contains the most accurate information available at the time of production. The online version of the Academic Catalog can be seen at www.kzoo.edu/regist/. Statements contained herein or on the online version are not contracutal obligations, and verval or other representations that are inconsistent with or not contained within the catalog’s offerings or policies are not binding. Kalamazoo College reserves the right to change, without specific notice, offerings, policies, procedures, qualifications, fees and other conditions. Kalamazoo College Mission The mission of Kalamazoo College is to prepare its graduates to better understand, live successfully within, and provide enlightened leadership to a richly diverse and increasingly complex world. Directions for Correspondence Requests for specific information on the following topics should be directed to the individuals named below at the following address: 1200 Academy Street, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49006. The general information telephone number for the College is (269) 337-7000. For admission information, call (800) 253-3602 or (269) 337-7166. President Eileen Wilson-Oyelaran Academic Affairs Michael A. McDonald, Provost Admission of Students Eric Staab, Dean of Admission Advancement Victoria Gorrell, Vice President for College Advancement Alumni Relations Kim Aldrich, Director of Alumni Relations Business Matters James Prince, Vice President for Business and Finance Career and Joan Hauxhurst, Director, Center for Career Professional Development and Professional Development Enrollment Joellen L. Silberman, Dean of Enrollment Financial Aid Marian Stowers, Director of Financial Aid Registration, Records, Alyce Brady, Registrar and Transcripts Student Affairs Sarah Westfall, Vice President for Student Development and Dean of Students Study Abroad Joseph L. Brockington, Director of the Center for International Programs Kalamazoo College is fully accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. It is an institutional member of the American Council on Education, the College Entrance Examination Board, and the Association of American Colleges. The College is a member of the Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA), the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA), and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III. An equal opportunity employer, Kalamazoo College is committed to equal rights, equal opportunities, and equal protection under the law. The College administers its programs without regard to race, creed, religion, age, sex, national origin, height, weight, marital status, physical disability as protected by law, or sexual orientation. The College’s definition of sexual orientation proscribes discrimination based on a person’s heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality, or gender identity, actual or presumed. Inquiries should be addressed to the Human Resources Manager, Laura Andersen. The Academic Catalog contains the most accurate information available at the time of publication. The online version of the Academic Catalog can be seen at http://www. kzoo.edu/regist/. Statements contained herein or on the online version are not contractual obligations, and verbal or other representations that are inconsistent with or not contained within the catalog’s offerings or policies are not binding. Kalamazoo College reserves the right to change, without specific notice, offerings, policies, procedures, qualifications, fees, and other conditions. Contents ONe Policies Honor Code. 6 Statement of Academic Freedom. 6 Policy on Student Records. 7 Admission Policies. 9 Expenses, Refund Policy, Fees . 13 Financial Aid Policies . 15 Academic Policies. 21 Study Abroad Policies . 32 Student Life Policies. .42 TWO Kalamazoo Curriculum Overview . 50 Degree Requirements . 50 Curriculum Details and Policies. .52 List of Programs . 57 Experiential Programs . 58 Advising and Related Services. 60 THREEAcademic Programs Program Requirements and Courses of Instruction. .64 FOUR Directories Board of Trustees. .244 Faculty. 246 Administration. 254 Alumni Leadership. 260 Index . .261 ONPOLIECIES Honor Code Academic Freedom Student Records Admission Policies Expenses, Refund Policy, Fees Financial Aid Policies Academic Policies Center for International Programs Student Life Policies Students with Disabilities Social Policies and Regulations Honor Code The mission of the College is the education of men and women to prepare them for productive lives and fruitful participation in society. Members of the Kalamazoo College community come to teach, study, and work here because the College’s mission and community statements correspond to their values. This community of individuals holds these values in common, despite our diversity. However, we recognize that this community is a fragile balance of cooperation, goodwill, and dependence, ever in need of renewal as new members enter it. The Honor System is a set of mutually held principles freeing us to create an environment of living and learning that will foster understanding, mutual respect, intellectual curiosity, and social commitment. We ask the members of the Kalamazoo College community to pledge themselves to creating and protecting a sense of honor in their lives, and we call upon them to act when they observe actions that are in conflict with these principles. Taking Responsibility for Personal Behavior To develop academic and social growth, we commit ourselves to free inquiry, openness to different points of view, and honesty in speech and conduct. In our attitudes and actions, we aim beyond selfishness and parochialism. Respecting Others To enhance our community, we accept responsibility for its social well-being. We commit ourselves to treat with respect those with whom we differ, to recognize the rights held by others, and to resolve conflicts. Expressions of prejudgment and prejudice are contrary to this mutual respect and prevent the fostering of community. Nurturing Independent Thought To safeguard the integrity of academic work and research, we accept responsibility for our own scholarly performance. We regard false representation of our scholarly work as unacceptable because it undermines our integrity and that of the community. We commit ourselves to knowing under what conditions scholarly research is to be conducted, the degree of collaboration allowed, and the resources to be consulted. Accepting Environmental Responsibility To maintain and improve the condition of our physical environment, we commit ourselves to the respectful and prudent stewardship of our community’s material and natural resources. Academic Freedom Liberal learning requires for its highest effectiveness an environment of free inquiry in which the whole range of human aspiration and achievement, knowledge, and culture can be subjected to searching scrutiny. Liberal learning believes that people should be free to construct and criticize without restraint of official dogmatism. Liberal learning specifically denies that if an idea is unpopular it is therefore suspect, or that if an idea is popular it is therefore true, and trusts instead in those canons of discrimination that are given in the Western tradition of historical scholarship and ethics. Standing self-consciously within this tradition of liberal learning, Kalamazoo College claims for its teachers and students the freedom to engage in the careful and critical examination of the history of ideas; the freedom to create, to hold, to advocate, and to act on behalf of ideas that express their own convictions and integrity; the freedom to engage in the controversy that an unfettered examination and expression of ideas generates; and the freedom to invite to campus representatives of points of view that are important to an informed understanding of the conflict of ideas in our own time. Since freedom of any kind always exists within certain clearly understood boundaries, these freedoms are subject to the following limitations: 1. The freedom of individual members of the College to hold, advocate, and act on behalf of ideas does not entail the right to receive endorsement or support of those ideas from the College as a corporate body. It is understood that no one may act as a spokesman for the corporate institution who has not been expressly authorized to do so. 2. Ideas held, whether by members of the College or by its guests, may be advocated openly in order that the processes of learning and of advocacy may be served by open criticism and by counter-advocacy. 3. It is understood that both advocacy and action will avoid destruction of property and injury to the personal or intellectual rights of others. 4. It is understood that the commonly accepted prohibitions against plagiarism, slander, libel, and incitement to force or violence are in effect in the exercise of these freedoms. 5. It is understood that freedom of advocacy and action does not entail the right to violate the regulations of the College with impunity. The Board of Trustees affirms its belief in upholding academic freedom on the campus. It is convinced that the maximum educational opportunity occurs when the College preserves for all its